"I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise."

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Source : Colin Tudge (1993). “Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped”, p.15, Island Press

Colin Tudge

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“I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.”
“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.”
“Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.”

Source : Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.
“Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.”

Source : H. A. Guerber (1910). “Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages”
“Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.”
“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”
“When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.”

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